Edwards' "other woman" revives memories of a gruesome scandal

ESPN.com ^ | August 14, 2008 | Lester Munson, with William Nack

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.......John Edwards was having sex with the daughter of the guy who taught Tommy (the Sandman) Burns how to kill horses by electrocuting them!

......in 1982..James Druck, an Ocala, attorney who represented insurance companies, paid [Burns] to kill the brilliant show-jumper Henry the Hawk, on whose life Druck had taken out a $150,000 life insurance policy. The horse was owned and shown by Druck's daughter, Lisa who had competed on his back in shows all over Florida. Her father, a criminally minded lawyer and conniver started Tommy Burns on his grisly career as a horse killer.

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Henry the Hawk was a terrific jumper for whom Druck had paid $150,000 two years before. When Jim Druck got strapped for cash, he tried to sell the horse; but the top offer was $125,000. He talked Burns into killing the horse and showed him how to do it.

Druck bought Burns the paraphernalia, and taught him how to rig the wires: to cut a high-powered extension cord into two strands; to attach alligator clips to the bare wire ends; to clip the apparatus to the animal -- one to an ear, the second to its rectum. Then plug the wire into a wall socket and keep back.

Lisa was in the back of a pickup truck with her then-boyfriend, when Burns slipped into the horse's barn with a handbag filled with his deadly equipment.From the pickup, they saw Burns stealing away and chased after him, but Burns managed to escape. When the two returned to the barn, they found Henry lying dead in his stall. Lisa confronted her father about the killing, and he never denied orchestrating the grisly affair for the money. McInerney related this episode from Lisa's -- err, Alison Poole's -- life, in his roman à clef.

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[Help!]

J.Edward's squeeze (sleeze) and horse killings

[They'reGone2000]

Too bad Johnny E. wasn’t around in those days. Those lawsuits sound like they’re right up his alley.

[Pistolshot]

[silverleaf]

omg

if true more bad news for Liz Edwards about the background of the future stepmother of her children

[They'reGone2000]

That's our boy.

Now if Obambi will just pick Evan Bayh for VP -- I think there's a resemblance:

[billorites]

Memo to self:

Never let anyone put an alligator clip on your ear.

[silverleaf]

maybe senator edwards offered to take a paternity test because alligator clips showed up in his mail

[mouse1]

or in your rectum

[Clintons Are White Trash]

I don’t know, I think I’d be more worried about someone wanting to put an alligator clip to my rectum!!! OUCH!!

[BatGuano]

Better to warn Elizabeth about the alligator clips!

[WayneS]

Question: How do you get a +/-500 lb horse to stand still while you attach an alligator clip to its rectum.

I have images of stall doors being kicked out and people having their fingers bitten off going through MY mind!

[ghostrider]

Lucky for John that he was no stud.

[IYAS9YAS]

After your post, all I could think of was Bluto, D-Day, Flounder and a starter-pistol...

Then the sound of a chainsaw.

[WayneS]

“Just BLANKS, right?”

“Right”.

[ghostrider]

Lisa was in the back of a pickup truck with her then-boyfriend...

Ha! I guess she has been "caught" before. :)

[AnAmericanMother]

Your typical Tbred hunter weighs between 1200 and 1500 pounds.

And any well schooled horse will stand for all sorts of indignities, like taking his temperature, washing tender bits, etc.

Horse never knew what was coming. They are very trusting animals, by and large, especially a pampered and expensive show jumper who had never known anything but kindness . . . .

There's a special place in the Inferno for folks who abuse the trust of animals.

[WayneS]

1500 lbs? WOW! I did not know they weighed so much. They look pretty slim and trim on TV.

I agree with you about the special place...

[AnAmericanMother]

1500 is tops, for a large hunter with a muscular build, standing around 16.3 to 17 hands (a hand is 4 inches). The warmbloods get even heavier (more bone), and you're seeing more of those these days in the hunter world.

My mare is what I'd call a typical Tbred hunter. She is 16 hands even and weighs around 1300 pounds, and she could stand to put on a little weight.

[They'reGone2000]

Lisa was in the back of a pickup truck with her then-boyfriend...

Just a thought...

"When I was a younger man and had a life," stated Clinton, "I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal.

I had Astroturf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did."

[HairOfTheDog]

I read about this last week.

This is probably the most hideous story and despicable people I have ever read. Or close to it.

He used to represent insurance companies against just this kind of scam? No ethics at all.